Contessa Entellina

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• Soils classified as association no. 12: Regosols, Brown Soils, Alluvial Soils, and Vertisols, typical of the inner argillaceous hills of Sicilia.
• Undulating morphology with variously inclined slopes and flattened areas at the base, in the upper and middle hillsides of the Valle del Belice.
• Mediterranean climate with an average annual rainfall of 700 mm, concentrated in autumn and winter, and summer drought.
• Average temperatures ranging from approximately 11°C in January–February to 28–30°C in July–August; relative humidity between 60% in summer and 75% in winter.

• Vineyards already documented in 1590 in records of the Monastery of S. Maria del Bosco; the wines of Entella were known as «Entellani».
• Training system: simple espalier or alberello; the tendone is explicitly excluded. (via Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0)

• Inland clay-rich hillside soils (Regosols, Brown Soils, Vertisols) shape the wine's profile in an area of upper and middle hillsides in the Valle del Belice.

Facts drawn from the cahier's terroir-link section (Lien au terroir) by automatic interpretation — see the source.

Sources

• eAmbrosia register (EU) — File number PDO-IT-A0776
• Official trade body site — Assovini Sicilia